Sanral, the country’s national roads agency, has allocated more than R88m towards the reconstruction of three crucial bridges that were swept away during February’s floods in Coffee Bay.
Municipal authorities have declared war on illegal advertising billboards erected alongside major roads and posters on walls in and around Mthatha and have warned the owners of the signs to remove them down or face stiff penalties. Posters and sometimes large billboards plastered on walls of shops, businesses, government buildings, street poles and municipal electricity transformers advertising businesses and sometimes backdoor street abortions, have been an all too-familiar sight, partic.
Qunu villagers have been applauded as heroes after battling a raging veld fire that threatened the house of world icon and SA's first black president Nelson Mandela.